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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

It’s not too late to sign up for Creative Screenwriting EXPOOctober 7-10, 2010. Not only do you have the opportunity to pitch your script, there are top notch classes to further your education, including classes by our future #scriptchat guest, Pilar Alessandra from @onthepage.

Our First Dude, Zac Sanford, @zacsanford, will be on a "How to Make Contact" panel Saturday, October 9th, at 11AM, as well as hearing pitches on Sunday.

That's not all... past guest, and huge #scriptchat supporter, Bob DeRosa@thembob is conducting a seminar on Breaking In, Sunday at 11am on how he broke into the industry, busting the myth of the "big break". Bob is also doing a joint session with his manager, Christopher Pratt, at 2pm Sunday discussing the writer/manager relationship.

Polish that script and get your pitch tickets before they’re sold out. They go on sale later today.

Bonus: If you missed your chance to sing at Great American Pitchfest, warm up those vocal chords because our own Merrel Davis, @UncompletedWork, and Xandy Sussan, @covermyscript, will be there for Screenwriter Karaoke at the Saturday night networking event. Zac will be in attendance too, so have a #scriptchat #tweetup #drinkup and get your tequila on!

Make sure to use the #csexpo hashtag while at the event, so you can all find each other.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Chris Jones is the writer of The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook. When it hit the book shelves, it was an immediate success with Indie film makers. The book has since spawned two updates, an American edition and a third book, The Movie Blueprint. The books have helped and inspired over 100,000 new film makers to date.

Chris has also made three genre micro budget features – first was an action thriller starring Harrison Ford’s kid brother Terrance, The Runner. This baptism by fire soon led to a second feature film, White Angel, a serial killer thriller (US title Interview With A Serial Killer) starring Peter Firth. White Angel later ran as the centrepiece film at the London Film Festival and picked up a bunch of international awards at festivals. The third micro budget feature was Urban Ghost Story, a gritty social realist paranormal tale set in Glasgow, Scotland which he wrote and produced.

After some years teaching and writing books, Chris relaunched his film making career in 2007 with the ambitious short "Gone Fishing". The film was entirely funded with £50 ($100) donations and Chris has kept an extensive blog about his adventures at www.chrisjonesblog.com

Gone Fishing was Oscars shortlisted in 2009.

Chris will be Euro #Scriptchat's guest on Sunday 3rd October at 8pm BST. He will be open to questions and discussions about low-budget screenwriting. So if you're interested in taking your future into your own hands and if you want to write something that will get made, come along and join the chat.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

We normally have the same topic on both EURO and USA chats, but occasionally international holidays don’t coincide. Tonight, we merged misery with sex. Oh yeah, you read that right. EURO talked the script MISERY and USA talked writing sex scenes and the use of profanity. You can imagine the heat coming off the screen in the States. Grab some ice and enjoy! @jeannevb